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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Anthropology Department

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation South Asia Studies

Areas of Expertise Ethnography
Indigenous Peoples
Human Rights
Food/Nutrition
Social Movements
South Asian Studies

Web Site

Primary Office Location Social Sciences 1
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Mail Stop Social Sciences 1 Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

I received my PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University in 2013, and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University from 2013-2015. Prior to that, I received my Bachelors in Law (LLB) from the Faculty of Law at University of Delhi in 2001 and practised in the Supreme Court of India and the Gauhati High Court in Assam.

Selected Exhibitions

• During the Pandemic. 2021. Dimapur and Melbourne.

Selected Publications

Books

• Kikon, Dolly, and Joel Rodrigues, eds. Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2023.
• Kikon, Dolly. Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (Nagaland). Second Edition. Guwahati: North Eastern Social Research Centre, 2023.
• Deka, Dixita, Joel Rodrigues, Dolly Kikon, Bengt G. Karlsson, Sanjay Barbora, and Meenal Tula. Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences. Guwahati: North Eastern Social Research Centre, 2022.
• Kikon, Dolly, and Duncan McDuie-Ra. Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Kikon, Dolly, and Bengt G. Karlsson. Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Kikon, Dolly. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.